The bipartisan budget plan passed by Congress will avert another government shutdown, give the Pentagon some relief from automatic spending cuts and restore billions of dollars to domestic programs. Gwen Ifill talks to Lori Montgomery of The Washington Post about how most Americans will experience effects of the budget plan. Continue reading →

In our news wrap Wednesday, the Senate passed a two-year bipartisan budget agreement in a vote of 64 to 36. The bill would erase the $63 billion in across the board spending cuts part of the sequester. Also, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov insisted the Russian-financed economic bailout will ensure the nation’s stability. Continue reading →

The House of Representatives moved towards passing a bipartisan budget deal to fund the government through the fall of 2015. Lawmakers on both sides agreed that the bill was a step in the right direction. Congressional correspondent Kwame Holman reports on the details of the agreement. Continue reading →

World leaders convened for the Warsaw Climate Change Conference this month, working towards an expanded commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Judy Woodruff talks to ActionAid USA’s Brandon Wu and Harvard University’s Robert Stavins about the political challenges ahead in order to curb climate change on a global scale. Continue reading →

Foreign ministers from six world powers negotiated into the early morning Sunday to reach a deal on Iran’s nuclear program. Judy Woodruff lays out some of the terms of the agreement and reports on the international reaction. Continue reading →

The interim deal could be a first step in striking a longer-term diplomatic agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. What difficulties might stand in the way? Gwen Ifill talks to former State Department official Nicholas Burns and Walter Russell Mead of Bard College. Continue reading →

Talks to negotiate Iran’s nuclear program stalled over the weekend when world powers failed to strike an interim agreement. Gwen Ifill talks to chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner about whether hope for a deal is dead or alive and next goals for Secretary of State John Kerry. Continue reading →

Another day of negotiations in Geneva ended with no agreement over Iran’s controversial nuclear program. The reported deal would temporarily suspend Iranian nuclear activity in exchange for relief of economic sanctions, yet U.S. allies such as Israel oppose any deal. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue reading →

The U.S. and Iran are likely to reach an interim agreement soon, but will relieving sanctions in exchange for nuclear suspension be a mistake in the long-term dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program? Jeffrey Brown gets views from Cliff Kupchan of the Eurasia Group and Reuel Gerecht of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Continue reading →